[EE] PCB design

David C Brown <[email protected]> Wed, 23 Jul 2025 18:16:17 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.hardware.microcontrollers.pic
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I did  a lot of PCB design before retirement  mainly on multilayer boards:
4 to 12 layers.
I am now as a hobby  designing two layer boards.  My approach is to put as
many tracks as possible on one side of the board (fairly easy as I am
generally translating circuits that were tested on stripboard) and putting
a ground plane on the other side.

My query is:  is it better to have the ground plane on the top (component
side and the tracks on the bottom?  Or vice versa? and why?
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